Speaking of Pedophiles/Child Molesters...

Who has seen the latest over the father in Texas who caught a guy molesting his young daughter and then beat him to death? A grand jury has decided he was acting in self-defense of the child and the father won't face charges.

Knowing how the simple protective attitude of a parent kicks in (being a parent myself), I would have done the same thing in that situation, and I expect most reasonable people would. Looking at the situation, it was not the blows that actually caused the death, but rather that the molester fell and hit his head on an object that caused the injury--the intent of the father was not to kill and it comes through in his phone calls to emergency services.

Additionally, this is not an excuse for someone killing a molester after the fact--i.e. finding out your child was molested three years ago and going and killing the molester. This was catching the man in the act of sexual assault, where the man had his pants and underwear around his ankles and was forcibly removing the girl's clothing. Under the laws of that state, stopping a sexual assault in progress with the use of force (up to and including deadly force) is considered self-defense in the third person, especially when the person being assaulted is a minor child.

Nope. Some things are grandfathered in from before civilization. This is one of them.

It would be a waste of time to charge and try him anyway. Unless they managed to get a jury full of childless people and/or pedophiles, it would be impossible to get a conviction. And it would be career suicide for any prosecutor who tried it.

What bothers me is the fact that the parent had charges brought against him in the first place! I am soon to be a parent myself, and I can tell you I would do the same thing if i caught someone in the very act of sexually assaulting my child. And I would tell the police that I'd do it all over again to keep my child safe.

No, I heard he didn't get any charges. They already took care of everything. No one wanted to waste time on that case. His daughter was getting raped, and he beat the hell out of him. Afterwards he called for help, because he beat him so badly he died.